Lake Sylvia Wellness & Massage

03/18/2026

🌸✨ Wellness Wednesday is blooming ✨🌸

This week I’m offering something special—custom essential oil roller blends you can create and take home as your own personal ritual for the season 🌿

Each blend is designed to support both your body and your intention as we move into spring:

🌱 Bloom – new beginnings, clarity, fresh energy
♥️ Open – heart healing, self-love, connection
🌿 Exhale – calm your nervous system, soften, unwind
🔮 See – intuition, inner wisdom, clear vision
🌍🔥 Rooted Shield – grounding, protection, embodied strength

You’ll get to:
✨ Choose the blend you’re drawn to
✨ Learn what each oil supports (emotionally + physically)
✨ Set an intention you can carry with you

These are more than just scents—they’re tools for coming back into your body and supporting yourself through the season.

Come slow down, connect, and plant seeds for what you’re calling in this spring 🌱

🌀 Wellness Wednesday
📍 Lemon Hill Cafe & Bookstore Lemon Hill Cafe & Bookstore
🕰️ 5:30–7:30

Hope to see you there❤️

03/08/2026

Life moves fast and can feel overwhelming. Here are just a few simple somatic moves you can do to help shake out some of the stress. Qigong movements are designed to restore peace to the body while giving you more energy. Sometimes the smallest practice can make a big difference. 🥰 - Carmen at Lake Sylvia Wellness

03/07/2026

Join me for a special Wellness Wednesday: 2026 Spring Equinox gathering at Lemon Hill Cafe & Bookstore. 🌿✨

The Spring Equinox is a time of balance, renewal, and setting intentions for the season ahead. We’ll gather in community to slow down, reconnect, and welcome the energy of spring.

I’ll be sharing:
• Gentle Qigong movements to awaken the body
• Simple self-acupressure techniques for releasing tension and calming the nervous system
• A creative moment to make your own aromatherapy spell bottle to honor your goals and intentions for the months ahead

And Dane from will be back offering $5 tarot readings. 🔮

Plus we’ll get to enjoy the wonderful food at and the magic of being together in a beautiful, supportive community. 🌸

Come as you are, bring a friend, and welcome spring with us.
When: Wednesday March 18 530 to 7PM

— Carmen, Lake Sylvia Wellness

03/06/2026

On my recent trip to Sedona I visited the beautiful Amitabha Stupa and Peace Park.

Walking the path around the stupa, there are prayer wheels you can gently spin. Each turn is said to send prayers for compassion, healing, peace, and hope out into the world.

Standing there, watching people quietly spinning the wheels and offering their intentions, it was a powerful reminder that so many of us are praying for peace right now. We are not alone in that.

— Carmen, Lake Sylvia Wellness

03/06/2026

Buddha’s Triangle

If the news and the world around you feel overwhelming lately, you’re not alone. Sometimes it can feel like too much to hold.

When it starts to feel that way, pause for a moment, come back to your breath, and rub these three points.

Lung 9 — Great Abyss
At the wrist crease on the thumb side.

Pericardium 6 — Inner Pass
About three finger widths below the wrist crease, in the center of the inner forearm.

Heart 7 — Spirit Gate
At the wrist crease on the pinky side.

These three acupressure points are called Buddha’s Triangle.

Together they can help calm the intense anxiety that comes from living in fight-or-flight — grief, deep sadness, abandonment wounds, and the nervous system dysregulation that can come from painful or abusive relationships.

Many practitioners think of them as a nervous system neutralizer.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, these points are believed to work together to harmonize the mind, heart, and lungs — systems deeply connected to our breath and emotional well-being.

When the outside world feels like too much, take a few slow breaths and hold these points gently.

You don’t have to carry it all at once.

- Carmen ❤️

🌿 Lake Sylvia Wellness

02/22/2026

Breath in. Let go.

A caterpillar climbs without rushing.
A heron stands in still water.

Nature doesn’t force.
It unfolds.

We are not separate from this rhythm —
we are this rhythm.

Your body knows how to soften.
Your breath knows how to return you home.

Pause.
Unclench your jaw.
Drop your shoulders.
Let the exhale be longer than the inhale.

Rest is not weakness.
Stillness is not laziness.
They are part of the design.

At Lake Sylvia, the trees, the water, the quiet creatures remind us:
You belong to this earth.
You are allowed to breathe.
You are allowed to slow down.

🌿 Breath in.
🌊 Let go.

02/21/2026

Hoya class at Lola Co

Hello beautiful plant people 💚🪴✨ I am super excited to announce on February 28 at 6 we are hosting an exclusive, info-packed Hoya Hangout with the one and only Toni Veloni of Hoya Harbor—MY and soon to be YOUR go‑to expert for all things waxy, vining, and beautifully dramatic. Learn varieties, care secrets, and how to fix the tricky stuff.
Bonus: Everyone leaves with a Hoya Harbor Hoya in hand. DM to register. Don’t sleep! This one is sure to sell out. $45 per person. Bring a friend and it’s $40 per.

02/03/2026

I started my Integrated Chinese Medicine into Massage Therapy Certification over this last weekend in Seattle. This got me thinking about the duality that lives within us and outside of us. How can we use duality thinking to build community? Follow me on Substack for more.

01/17/2026

There is something deeply ancient about hot stone massage.

These stones, shaped by time, fire, and water, carry the steady wisdom of the earth itself. When warmed and placed on the body, they invite the nervous system to soften, signaling safety, grounding, and rest.

01/15/2026

Carmen Noguer LMP of Lake Sylvia Wellness has been accepted into
Integrating Chinese Medicine
Massage Therapy (ICMMT) Certification Program for 2026.

01/10/2026

I decided to spruce up my treatment room with something close to my heart 💚
Every image on these walls is a photo I’ve taken over the years at Lake Sylvia State Park.

From my very first hike, to baby Canadian geese, a quiet heron, grand old-growth trees, moss, mushrooms, logging roads glowing at sunset, the dam, and moments along the trails that always bring me back to center.

Bringing these images into the space feels like inviting a sense of calm into each session 🌿

📍Lake Sylvia Wellness
📸 All photos taken by me, over many years, at Lake Sylvia State Park